A Right-to-Know Law denial of records from the Centre County District Attorney’s Office should have been appealed in the Centre County Court of Common Pleas rather than the Commonwealth Court, the latter has ruled, in a decision that raised a question about how the District Attorney’s Office handles the open records appeals process.
In a reported opinion Wednesday, a three-judge panel said the RTKL appeal, which dealt with a request for phone records between the District Attorney’s Office and county judges, was not properly filed in the Commonwealth Court, so it transferred the matter to the trial court. The District Attorney’s Office had contended that the Commonwealth Court was the proper jurisdiction, arguing that the District Attorney’s Office is a judicial agency.
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